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A. Landi General Merchandise Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“Landi General Merchandise Building is a historic commercial building on Arkansas Highway 8 near Eudora, Arkansas in the village of Grand Lake. Built c. 1920, it is a single story wood-frame building with Plain Traditional styling, including a central section on its main facade with a raised parapet section over the centered entrance.”

Wikipedia article A. Landi General Merchandise Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Chicot County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Landi, A., General Merchandise Building - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. AR 8, Grand Lake, 71640
  • When was it listed? October 1992
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Ethnic and Racial Minority Settlement of the Arkansas Delta MPS
  • District. District 9
  • National Register reference number. 92001347 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

7 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of A. Landi General Merchandise Building between 2004 and 2011, burning about 73 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Arson/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
15 September 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 March 2009Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 March 2011Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 February 2004Arson/incendiarism45 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 February 2004Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 November 2005Arson/incendiarism13 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Chicot County

Storms near this property

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grand Lake, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2001 and 2013: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2013Thunderstorm WindGrand Lake$30,000A tractor trailor was rolled over on Highway 65 southeast of Eudora. A few trees and power lines were blown down in the area as well.
April 2013Tornado (EF0)Grand Lake-This brief tornado touched down in an open field southeast of Eudora along US Highway 65. A picture was taken (by a trained spotter) as the tornado kicked up dust as it moved in an east northeastward direction. A condensation funnel was visible that had distinct rotation. No damage occurred. Maximum wind speeds were estimated at 75 mph.
March 2012HailGrand Lake-One inch hail fell along Grand Lake Loop.
November 2001HailGrand Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chicot County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

5 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Dr. A. G. Anderson House3.2 miles1992
Eudora City Hall3.2 miles2006
Scott Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church3.3 miles2022
American Legion Post No. 127 Building3.3 miles1992
First Baptist Church3.4 miles1998

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 92001347 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chicot CountyAll 23 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.